Heard in a lecture today: âThis apllies both to Americans and African-Americansâ. WTF. Surely âAmericansâ should cover U.S. citizens of all races and ethnicities? And if you meant the research was done on black and white Americans you could say just that without implying black Americans are less of Americans AND erasing all the other racial groups (bc Iâm pretty sure they werenât included under the default âAmericanâ).
give cash UNCONDITIONALLY. itâs not your business how they spend it. you donât get to walk along with them holding on to the other end of the $1 until you see them pass it over to someone you approve of. if they get food do you get to decide where they get it from? if you see them pass it off to someone, do you get to interrogate that person as to whether theyâre a friend or someone who lent them money earlier or a dealer? would you go around trying to stop any and every exchange of drugs, or just if you think someone is too poor or too homeless? how do you know if someoneâs drug use is the âcauseâ (theres never just one cause) of someones homelessness? you do NOT get to feel superior. they ask for money, you choose to give it, it does NOT give you any right to âsuperviseâ them or control how they use their own money. people think that everyone who is homeless or at risk of it (SO SO MANY people are at risk of it) are in that position because they did something to deserve it or are inherently lacking as people somehow, and that they have to be âledâ into better Life Choices via patronizing conditionalities that often sabotage someones efforts to take care of themselves. they are NOT lesser people, you do not know anything about them, you donât have any right to insert your judgment in what they should do to prove they âdeserveâ any tiny piece of the same resources we wouldnât question going to anyone who seems Not-Poor enough. you donât know what would actually improve their lives. you certainly donât get to think that you know better than they do what they need at any given moment. they are individuals and they are people. to suggest they need your guidance to make good life choices only implies your own biased assumptions about why someone is homeless.
give cash directly and unconditionally to the homeless
the assumption that women in prostitution donât feel uncomfortable bc they are financially compensated shows the extent to which theyâre not seen as living feeling human beings. there is no other group so thoroughly dehumanized in our collective consciousness than prostituted women.
Women feel more guilt than men, not because of some weird chromosomal issue but because they have a history of being blamed for other peopleâs behaviour. You get hit, you must have annoyed someone; you get raped, you must have excited someone; your kid is a junkie, you must have brought him up wrong
Germaine Greer, Guilt Poisons Women (via uninucleus)
The way some people who donât own guns talk about what they imagine to be what is is like owning a gun is honestly horrifying. I saw someone say, âYou get into an argument with your friend and youâre gonna go for the gunâ like bitch speak for yourself???? I assure you that is not a universal condition. I guarantee I have been inches from a loaded shotgun and annoyed not been like, âIâm gonna go fucking shoot my roommate for not throwing away his cereal box.â
the op is kinda like this british journalist who ridiculed a woman for wanting sex segregated changing rooms: âwhat are you scared of? what do you think IâM going to do?â
nobody thinks all or even most gun owners are so unhinged theyâre gonna shoot someone bc of an argument. but since itâs easier to kill someone with a gun rather than without it some of us find it prefarable when people around us donât have guns.
Dad Admits Drugging, Sexually Assaulting, Killing Daughter
A California father who drugged, sexually assaulted and killed the 14-year-old daughter whose remains were found in 2009 buried in the backyard of the familyâs former home faces life in prison without parole after confessing to those and other crimes against female minors, PEOPLE confirms.
The guilty plea announced Tuesday by Mark Edward Mesiti, 49, of Modesto, abruptly cut short his murder trial at which prosecutors were pursuing the death penalty against him, Stanislaus County District Attorney Birgit Fladager announced in a statement.
Mesitiâs daughter, Alycia, was reported missing in August 2007. Her remains were located on March 25, 2009, buried behind Mesitiâs former rental home in Ceres, California, from which he was evicted a few months after she disappeared, reports The Modesto Bee.
An autopsy found she died of acute drug intoxication with the presence in her body of opiates, morphine, amphetamine, methamphetamine and other drugs.
Mesiti had been awarded custody of his daughter less than a year before her death, even after a judge was made aware that in the seven years prior, the father had been convicted of state and federal charges that included drunk driving and bank fraud, reports The Mercury News.
Mesiti also had been charged with domestic violence and ordered to attend anger-management classes, and jailed for failing to attend drug- and alcohol- treatment programs, the newspaper reports.
Authorities who arrested Mesiti in Los Angeles when his daughterâs remains were found alleged that he was operating a meth lab, and he was convicted in 2011 of manufacturing meth.
Upon his arrest they also recovered several computers, hard drives, DVDs, CDs and other digital media that showed he possessed âhundreds of thousands of images involving child pornography,â according to the prosecutorâs office.
Mesiti was charged with murder with special circumstances in the death of Alycia, along with 48 other felony sexual assault charges.
During the trial that began Oct. 3, Mesitiâs defense attorney Martin Baker argued that Alyciaâs diary suggested she was a drug addict, with her writing in one passage that she âwanted to feel nothing,â reports the Turlock Journal.
He said the presumed manner of her death from an overdose âwill require a not-guilty verdict.â
But as the trial that was expected to last for months continued, Mesitiâs attorneys offered to have him plead guilty to all counts if the prosecutor would agree not to seek the death penalty, according to the prosecutorâs office.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Annette Rees agreed to the plea â with a sentence of life in prison without parole â if Mesiti he would confess to his crimes in open court.
âMesiti told the court he committed rape, sodomy, oral copulation, digital penetration and child molestation involving his daughter, Alycia, many times over several different occasions,â the prosecutorâs office says. âHe admitted having given Alycia drugs on each occasion to make her unable to resist his attacks. Mesiti also admitted that his administration of those drugs caused Alyciaâs death.â
âFinally, Mesiti admitted taking many sexually explicit photographs of his daughter Alycia and two other minors under 18 years old,â the statement said. âHe also said he molested the two other minors while he lived in Los Angeles.â
Mesitiâs attorneys declined comment to the media after the guilty verdict.
âItâs over,â Alyciaâs maternal great-aunt, Roberta Fitzpatrick, said after Mesiti pleaded guilty, according to the Bee. âI just want to put this all behind me, except for honoring Alycia.â
Remind me again how women are always given custody even when theyâre unstable. Remind me how dads who are well suited to parenthood never get custody. The judge handing this girl over to a rapist and murderer says a lot about the judge. He looked at this monster and saw himself. That judge, whose name is noticeably absent from the article, is an accomplice to murder and should be held accountable but much like the judge in the Brock Turner was excused quietly by his peers.
Mesitiâs defense attorney Martin Baker argued that Alyciaâs diary suggested she was a drug addict, with her writing in one passage that she âwanted to feel nothing,â
And why, exactly, does Mr. Baker think Alycia wanted to feel nothing? Again, females are blamed for what males do to us.
The âniqab bans only serve to further punish vulnerable Muslim womenâ argument relies on a hidden assumption - that the men who push the niqab on women in their families are all religious fanatics whoâd rather not let a woman leave the home at all than let her go niqab-less.
And while Iâm sure there are some men like that I donât think theyâre the majority. Most people are opportunists - they will exploit a chance to get something they want IF they can get it without facing any negative consequences. And there are many possible negative conseqences niqab loving men could face for locking women up in their homes. Did she have a job before the ban? Now she canât go to work so heâs the single earner. Did she do the shopping? Now she canât do that either. Was she in charge of collecting benefits? Taking children out for a walk? No longer an option.
So what Iâm trying to say here is not: niqab bans are great and a clear path to liberation!!!! What Iâm saying, or rather asking is this: what tools are we giving the women living with these niqab loving men to resist their oppression if we allow it to remain legal?
Friendly reminder it took until the 70s for TERF mindset to seep into radical feminism, which had been around since the 60s during the 2nd wave.
Radical feminism was inclusive - and still largely was - to trans women. The womyn-for-womyn movement isolated, abused, harrassed, and then forced a large number of trans women to leave the radfem sphere nevertheless.
In other words: TERFs co-opted an inclusive movement, not the other way around.
i just hate this racist denial of sex-based oppression, like please tell me more about how radical chicana and black feminists who understood how theyâre treated here and how their sisters in their homelands are treated based on their sex would be like âah, yes, but these males who choose to label themselves women later in life suffered the same way we did and absolutely understand what itâs like growing up in our cultures as female and therefore weâll include themâ
Itâs blatantly false anyways, bc this trend of claiming that biological sex isnât real/changes based on your feelings, is very recent. Trans people used to understand sex-based oppression.
Ive never once made the claim that biological sex isnât real, nor have I heard trans people make similar claims. Cognitive disconnect between oneâs sex and gender - however not always - usually makes someone transgender.
My problem lay in using that to misgender and harrass trans people, which has been a common occurance even to this day. Denying them access to bathrooms & womenâs shelters puts them at further risk.
So many transactivists (not all of whom are trans) were so angry when Chimamanda tried to point this out, too. Feminists arenât allowed to point out the differences between the two sexes without getting labeled âterfâ.
And yes, people have been denying biological sex a lot lately.
highly intelligent children are still children, children who look older than they are are still children, children who act older than they are are still children, children who want to be older than they are are still children, children who have been through a lot are still children
and all children should be treated in a respectful way that acknowledges their personhood, but that doesnât mean treating them as though they are adults.
and if a child is precocious in one aspect of development it doesnât mean sheâs actually more likely to be âadult likeâ in other aspects. sheâs not more ready for sex bc she grew breasts earlier than her peers, sheâs not more emotionally mature bc she could do 7th grade math at age 8, sheâs no more prepared for dealing with responsibility than any other child her age even if she was pushed into it by circumstances.
Scott Wilson, 20, (pictured) was attacked by Shelton Dube at the hostel in Newcastle where they both lived, despite having explained that he identifies as a man and was attracted to women.
A transgender man has revealed his horrific ordeal after he was raped by a serial sex attacker in a hostel after offering to help put away his groceries.
Scott Wilson, 20, was attacked by Shelton Dube at the hostel where they both lived, despite having explained that he identifies as a man and was attracted to women.
Dube, 23, pounced in Mr Wilsonâs room after they had been out for groceries, having first told him he was âprettyâ and had âvery kissable lipsâ.
Mr Wilson said: âI thought he was joking on because I had already explained, yes, Iâm a trans man.
âI identify as a man, Iâm attracted to women, I didnât see why he could be serious. That was when he forced himself on me.â
I think this is the third recent case Iâve read of trans-identified females who think that declaring to a rapist that they âidentify as a manâ will save them from rape. I remember one case in particular where a trans-identified female recounted telling her rapist over and over âI identify as a man!â because she honestly believed this would stop him from wanting to rape her.
This is one of many dangers of trans ideology - the idea that identifying as something makes you that thing and the idea that literally everyone in the world must see you as that thing is not only false, itâs dangerous and hurtful. These women thought that their rapists wouldnât want to rape them if they knew they âidentified as menâ because they were taught by trans ideology that the moment the male rapists became aware of their identity, they would immediately see them as men and no longer want to rape them. Obviously, this is not the case, because the reality of the situation prevails and their rapist was aware that they were female and âidentityâ doesnât matter.
(Of course, this also has an insulting and misogynistic counterpart: the idea that they would have deserved to be raped, or that it would have been okay that they were raped, if only they âidentified as womenâ. But that, too, is brought from trans activism, which teaches that females who donât identify as trans deserve and must accept rape, assault, murder and more submissively and without comment.)
There was the case from Halifax, Nova Scotia where a trans man was raped by their taxi driver and apparently kept saying âIâm a man!â
Not surprisingly, the rapist didnât agree and didnât care.
Trans men must be careful: feel free to identify however you like, but never forget that biology is unchangeable and someone whoâs going to rape you isnât going to care how you identify.
After all, when you scream, itâs in a female range.
Why not try reblogging in a format that people can engage with, if youâre going to have the audacity to try and lecture us.
Look: hereâs the sad truth. Those individuals are not men. They will never be men. They are female, and the people predating on them know it.
You say âthey told the rapist because straight men arenât attracted to trans menâ. Arenât you a sweet summer child, then, because rapists are about power, and theyâre males who want power over females.
What could be more powerful than reminding a female who thinks sheâs a man that sheâs female after all?
This is male violence against females, and sadly they had to find out the hard way that reality > identity. Your identity will not protect you from reality.
@sikander-sg what do you honestly think would happen? A misogynistic male person preying on who they know to be a female person would just say âoh Iâm sorry sir, Iâll go find a woman to rape insteadâ or âEw! You identify as a man? Well now itâs gay!â Do you think rape is actually about attraction to begin with? Do you think male rapists respect the opinions of their female victims?
The reality of the sex-based oppression of females is a harsh one but itâs one that needs to be confronted.Â
4chan asshole dude who thinks the concept of ânonbinaryâ is stupid: LOL these dumb tRigGErT bitches think theyâre special snowflakes ha ha this is so funny to mock because I have not matured past the stage of â4th grade class bullyâ
Me, who thinks the concept of ânonbinaryâ is stupid: The phenomenon of ânonbinary"identities stems from the female populationâs discomfort with the gender roles and expectations forced onto them by a male-dominated society. This only serves to further enforce peopleâs views on gender, which is an inherently oppressive concept. This is largely a sad thing to observe and I am concerned for these kidâs future wellbeings
âŠgotta fix that last bugâŠwithâŠextensive elective surgery with tons of complications and a lifelong regimen of sterilizing cross sex hormonesâŠhow cute uwu
Lust is always depicted as an object of lust while the others are depicted as partaking in their sin. So yes, an incel would be an improvement on that depiction, if people really wanted to be realistic. In fact, all the sins would be better represented by misogynistic men.
Pride: PUA
Envy: MTT
Lust: incel
Sloth: couch potato dude while his wife slaves away